Definition of monkey pot
1 a
: a large woody urn-shaped operculate fruit characteristic of the sapucaias and various closely related trees (as the manbarklaks)
b
: sapucaia;
also
: manbarklak
2
: a pot used in glassmaking;
specifically
: any of several round-topped oval cylinders enclosed in firebrick arches at the base of a chimney and used as melting pots in making of flint glass
